Friday Ephemera
He wants someone to help him wash his hands. || Jetpack Samurai. You heard me. || 14,000 Apollo photos turned into gifs. (h/t, Coudal) || In local news. (h/t, Julia) || Supply and demand. || More densely populated than Manhattan. || Made using Google Earth. || He does this better than you do. || And he does this better than your kids did. (h/t, Damian) || “Writer, teacher and broadcaster.” || Stealth SUV. || For fans of the mechanical. || Kitchen knife made of foil. || Frozen lake versus red-hot jackhammer. || Joinery of note. || Book thief curses of the Middle Ages. || How the Devil got his horns. || This depiction, seen as a child, has lingered in the memory. || This is one of these. || “Mine’s real.” || And finally, if you find this footage amusing, you’re a terrible, terrible person.
if you find this footage amusing
And the full video has even more entertaining bits … 4:14 mark where he starts falling to his knees pleading “Please please I’m sorry” is especially precious…
Ask me how I know.
I just assume my readers have a criminal history and have spent time in the big house.
Sort of related: For those who think that there are no real differences between males and females, I note that my profession has taken me into my state’s maximum security correctional institutions for males and for females. Same degrees of felonies just different sexes. The differences are quite stark in terms of security and general atmosphere. In the male prison, the inmate I was seeing (my own client, armed robbery) was trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey and was behind Plexiglas in a cubicle which took me walking through multiple locked doors to get to.
In the female prison, the inmate I was deposing (first degree murder for stabbing someone multiple times) was walking around among the rest of the denizens of that facility and I got to walk through several hundred of them exercising in the yard to get to the conference room where the meeting took place.
The contrast was jarring.
if you find this footage amusing, you’re a terrible, terrible person
I saw it posted at 4Chan /b/. Much profane hilarity ensued.
R. Sherman
I noted that the 4 years I worked in a juvenile facility we only needed one unit for the girls, the others (about 9 — at least 2 were max security for the juvies being held because they were tried or were waiting to be tried as adults). Save for one or two literally psycho girls, the vast majority of calls for emergency help were always on the boys’ units.
Oh… btw… the “threads into shiv” thing was how this guy went from a lifer at Pelican Bay to death row.
Darleen,
Early in my career, I periodically was appointed to represent juvenile offenders. I recall one afternoon, I got a call from a judge for a juvenile extradition hearing, an extremely rare occurrence. The offender had mugged an old lady, stolen a car, robbed a liquor store and then driven through three states to get to my county where he’d finally run out of gas and stolen cash.
He was 13 years old, less than feet tall and weighed about 90 pounds soaking wet. He was subdued with thumb cuffs.
I actually had a defense to extradition to the state where the really bad offenses took place, but he was crying and telling me he just wanted to see his “mama” and wanted to go home.
Truly strange.
I think about him occasionally. He’s probably dead or serving hard time.
@Darleen
I should have written “less than five feet tall.” He was a tiny little kid. I remember, I gave him a business card and he called me “Mr. ‘R'” during the time we talked. He kept telling me he wanted to go home and see his “mama,” even though I don’t think his mother (single, of course) even knew he was 500 hundred miles from home.
That was back when I was young, idealistic and a Democrat.
@Mr. R
The one thing I’ve carried with me from my time at the JDACs is that so many of the inmates were actually & honestly victims – there were the 3rd or 4th generation gang member, the kids of criminal and/or addict parent(s) who, for all intents & purposes, lived on their own … rarely in school, taught how to steal, never been to a doctor in their lives.
Indeed, juvenile hall was probably the first stable place they had ever lived.
But I’m also in touch enough with reality to know there were also a significant number of “kids” who were truly sociopaths and would probably spend the better part of their lives in the prison system … no matter how short or long that would be.
Fred the Fourth: “Julia, American military pilots of that era tended to be trim and small. “
Yeah, I know, I just couldn’t resist… 😉
In other news, hey, scientists, whyyyyyyyyyyy!
And I should know better than to drive myself bonkers when running across crap like this when I was looking for Daniel Landry …
BTW, this is a woman who is writing this and IMHO it is akin to all the weirdo women who write fan letters & proposals of marriage to serial killers.
In other news, hey, scientists, whyyyyyyyyyyy!
“flic-flac spider” my ass.
The designers only cite the spider to justify that the real reason they spent all the development money was so that they could have their own droideka.
4:14 mark where he starts falling to his knees pleading “Please please I’m sorry” is especially precious…
Today’s word is foresight. Also, consequences.
It’s always grimly funny to see such after-the-fact whining, when no such accommodation would be offered by him to those he preys upon.
“Whoever steals this book
Will hang on a gallows in Paris,
And, if he isn’t hung, he’ll drown,
And, if he doesn’t drown, he’ll roast,
And, if he doesn’t roast, a worse end will befall him.”
An hour of Amy Schumer stand up?
By the way, I’ve been emailed by a commenter who pointed out that my remarks about Darleen and Julia are terribly unfair. Apparently, to correct this error and restore some basic fairness, I should now fabricate improbable jailhouse skills for the rest of you.
Apparently, to correct this error and restore some basic fairness, I should now fabricate improbable jailhouse skills for the rest of you.
I can send you some dandy recipes for Pruno and the proper way to get the alcohol out of liquid shoe polish by straining it through a loaf of three day old bread.
“Nobody wants to be a bad neighbor…”, so be a good chap and pay British Rail for the daylight that comes through your window (Reg and Ronnie last seen furiously taking notes at this scheme).
“Nobody wants to be a bad neighbor…”, so be a good chap and pay British Rail for the daylight that comes through your window
The video makes clear that the sole purpose was to preserve British Rail’s legal right to build on their own property.
In the video, a British Rail representative explains to the BBC that according to British law, if a person “has windows receiving the light uninterruptedly for 20 years” then they have a legal right to that light in perpetuity, and a neighbor may not build anything on their own land which would reduce that light. Therefore, British Rail must take steps to preserve their rights to develop that land. Asking those neighbors to pay (at least once every 20 years) a purely nominal fee for light access is one way to preserve those rights. Asking for a token payment does seem like a reasonable way to accomplish this.
Burn it down
Burn it down
Darleen, it may be worth reposting that comment in today’s thread too.